George H. Yewell, age 11, moved to Iowa City with his mother in 1841. Over the next decade, as George was growing up, so was Iowa City. As a young man, Yewell loved exploring the open space around his childhood home, and when he turned eighteen (1848), he began journaling, bringing story and art together on one page.
In 1855, Yewell sketched his “A Distant View of Iowa City” (from the north).
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